The 627th Radar Squadron is an inactive
United States Air Force
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unit. It was last assigned to the
32d Air Division
The 32d Air Division (32d AD) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. It was last active with Air Defense Command, assigned to First Air Force at Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama, where it was inactivated on 31 December 1969.
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Air Defense Command (ADC), stationed at
Crystal Springs Air Force Station, Mississippi. It was inactivated on 8 September 1968.
The squadron was originally activated in 1946 as one of the first Aircraft Control & Warning Squadrons (AC&W Sq) when the
Army Air Forces assumed the radar detection mission from the
Signal Corps in 1946. Its mission was to provide air defense for the island of
Guam
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. It was inactivated when its parent group moved from Guam to Okinawa.
The unit was reactivated in 1957
[Cornett & Johnson, p. 154 (Cornett & Johnson do not provide exact dates for the squadron's period at Dobbins AFB)] as a General Surveillance Radar unit under ADC, providing for the air defense of the Gulf Coast of North America, although it was apparently only a paper unit without personnel or equipment until moving to its programmed site in Mississippi. In 1958, the squadron provided support to contractors participating in the radar frequency diversity test program. In 1959, the squadron joined the
Semi Automatic Ground Environment
The Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) was a system of large computers and associated networking equipment that coordinated data from many radar sites and processed it to produce a single unified image of the airspace over a wide area. SA ...
system and was redesignated as a Radar Squadron.
It was discontinued and inactivated in 1968, when the
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decided to draw down air defenses in the Gulf Coast region.
Lineage
* Constituted as the
627th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, ''ca''. June 1946
: Activated ''ca'' 18 July 1946
: Inactivated on 22 June 1948
: Activated on 8 April 1957
: Redesignated 627th Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 1 October 1959
: Discontinued and inactivated on 8 September 1968
Assignments
* Probably 529th Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 18 July 1946–22 June 1948
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35th Air Division
The 35th Air Division (35th AD) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command, assigned to First Air Force, at Hancock Field, New York. It was inactivated on 19 November 1969.
History
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, 1 September 1957
* 32d Air Division, 15 November 1958
*
Montgomery Air Defense Sector
The Southeast Air Defense Sector (SEADS), was a unit of the US Air Force located at Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida. It provided air defense and surveillance of the southeastern region of the US. SEADS closed in winter 2005, ...
, 1 November 1959
* 32d Air Division, 1 April 1966 – 8 September 1968
Stations
*
Northwest Guam Air Force Base, Guam, ''ca'' 18 July 1946–20 March 1948
*
Harmon AFB, Guam, 20 March 1948–22 June 1948
*
Dobbins AFB
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, Georgia, 8 April 1957–1 September 1958
*
Crystal Springs AFS, Mississippi, 1 September 1958–8 September 1968
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Radar squadrons of the United States Air Force
Aerospace Defense Command units